Posted by sbt on 11/16/05 20:17

In article <1132168535.087467.209590@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
shady1111 <sethshady@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Allow me to flame a bit;
>
> this has turned into the stupidest conversation ever.
> wah, this screen is too small, it doesn't accept my files, wah!
> make your own player.
>
> The initial thread was regarding the technical reformatting of videos
> to play on the ipod.
> Now, to find the few comments related to video conversion I have had to
> read all of the 'idiots banter' about the philosophical dilemmas faced
> when choosing one media player over another and the moral relativity of
> screen size. SHUT UP already.
>
> As for the initial question,
>
> Quicktime pro will convert mpg and mov files to m4v format, but I have
> not had success converting any AVI files - Quicktime either states it
> cannot open the files, or it converts them and they end up without
> audio. Either way, iTunes will not allow me to import them.
>
> I just started using Total Video Converter (
> http://www.effectmatrix.com as Hanson Woo recommended back on Oct
> 14th) with much success, although I am still working out the kinks of
> video resizing.
>
> If anyone knows a workaround to the Quicktime Pro issue of not
> recognizing avi files I would be stoked to hear it. When it actually
> works (with mpg and mov conversion) it does do a much better job of
> outputting ready to go, correctly ipod sized videos than TVC.
>
> Thanks

If you can play the particular AVI in QuickTime Player, then my
experience is that QT Pro will do the conversion properly; however, the
majority of AVIs that I've seen require additional codecs (DivX and
xvid) to be installed for proper playback.

--
Spenser

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